34: Escapers
I don't own FMA and it belongs to its rightful owners anything else belongs to AENR13.
POV of Laura Fang
"POW!" I hang my head as the pain of the punch finally spreads across my jaw. I don't react against it, I keep my head low as I struggle to keep my eyes open. I'm so exhausted, sleep deprived, stressed, and numb all together.
"C'mon Colonel Fang start talking!" One of the State's tormentors to get interrogated criminals yells at me in the face. His spit explodes over my cheek, I wipe it away with my cheek and I look up at him,
"What?" My eye feels so heavy...
"TELL US WHAT MUSTANG AND ANDERSON ARE UP TO!" He screams out again,
"I don't know, I didn't find out," I lie because I can't risk Mustang and Anderson getting their tails stepped on. Leo's right, I guess I am just a dog like he said.
"Stop lying Fang!" The alchemist lands another punch across my face, tears sting my eyes but I hold them back. "When does Mustang plan to surpass the Fuehrer?!" I look up
"I'm not lying! I don't know! I swear it!" I tell back truthfully because I really don't know, the claw mist throws his hands into the air. He closes the cell door behind him leaving me alone. I hang my head as I'm finally left alone, what the hell am I supposed to do now? I have no way of escaping or even trying to get myself free, if this is the way how I'm going to die, it's a really cowardly way to.
There's the sound of bullets echoing into the prison's hallways, I look up as there's the sound of the guards dying. I try to get myself free when someone in black stands in front of my cell door. The person gets the door open and gets the handcuffs off of me,
"Who are you?" I ask and the person takes off their mask and it's Hawkeye, I make a stunned face, "What the hell are you doing here?!" she smirks and tosses me one of her guns
"Do you know how to shoot?" she asks and I shrug
"Somewhat," she smirks as she hands me a magazine of bullets,
"I can here because I couldn't have my one and true rival die can I?" I laugh as I load up the gun
"I never thought that I'd be so damn happy to have you as my rival," we start running down the corridors to escape when guards start surrounding us, we press our backs against each other, we start shooting to keep the guards off of us but it's obvious if we don't get out of there soon, we'll die.
"Hey Laura! Isn't there something you can do?! Like do an Illusion on everyone or something?!" She asks as we take cover behind slabs of random concrete the guards start shooting in the general area where we are,
"I can't, I need another Illusion Alchemist to help me out with something this big. Riza, the vents!" She nods and raises the gun up and shoots at the AC pipes. Pressurized air escapes so we use that split second to run off. We're running down the corridors trying to escape when the floor underneath us gives away. We fall in the tiny trap door shaft, it gets narrower and narrower to the point our backs are pressed against each other's as our legs are drawn up to our chests because of how tight it is. Our bodies tremble as we're at a dead lock, I glance down and I see there are skeletons at the body meaning we'll die if we slip.
"What now?" Riza asks, I hook my arms with hers,
"We climb, I got a plan but we're going have to work together," she nods "Alright, we're going have to walk at the same time, my left!" We slowly start our descend synchronizing our steps together. I bring up my leg about to set it down when a cockroach crawls its way over to me. I scream and we slip, I lock my hands and legs out as Riza falls on me, I try to support our weight when her foot smashes against my hand, I do the mistake of taking my hand away as a reaction. We fall down, she reaches out and she clings onto a ledge, I wrap my arms around her hips so that way I don't slam into a Laura rag doll against the floor. She shakes as she tries holding us up,
"Hey Riza," I call out
"Yeah?" I swallow as I look down
"Sorry for calling you Eliza for all these years," she laughs
"It's fine, I thought your name was Lana," I smirk then her pants start sliding off. "Laura my pants!" She screams down at me as I tighten my hold around her legs. I look around an I see there's a flat pillar top that maybe I can reach if I swing over there.
"Riza, you trust me right?" I ask
"Not really but what do you need?"
"I need you to swing me towards the left," I confess, she looks down at me with a "what the hell are you thinking?" kind of face going on.
"And why would I do that?" I look up at her
"You just have to trust me!" She starts wiggling her legs so I help her too; as soon as I can get fairly close to the pillar, I let go and get slammed into the concrete pillar. I wince as I move my knee around and drop down from the pillar to the floor. I stand directly under her,
"Let go! I'll catch you!" She let's go and crash on me. Thankfully when we crashed against the floor, my Auto Mail takes the blunt of the blow. She pulls up her pants as we stand up.
"I owe you," she replies as I nod,
"We're not out of the woods yet, we got company." We draw out our guns as Chimeras crawl their way over towards us.
"If we die tonight, I'm glad I died fighting alongside you," I state and she nods
"Same for you," we don't say anything because secretly we both know that we might end up dying here along with these other nameless skeletons here;